Re-reading the Lord of the Rings, Chapter 40
Journey to the Cross-roads is a mood-piece, the world is getting darker, farer, frailer, worner, ghost-like, but in a bodily, subtle, fashion.
And Gollum does enjoy it, he's becoming more vigorous, whereas Frodo and Sam hold on to the last traces of light - with a hint of a new beginning.
The chapter is hardly more than making the necessary transition from the fair Henneth Anûn to the Valley of Living Death, but for the first time Gollum's world becomes fathomable, a curse to live with the foxes, cast out from the land of those, who enjoy the privilege to stand and overlook, forever hiding's prey.
They have come into his own, but soon they'll even go beyond.
And Gollum does enjoy it, he's becoming more vigorous, whereas Frodo and Sam hold on to the last traces of light - with a hint of a new beginning.
The chapter is hardly more than making the necessary transition from the fair Henneth Anûn to the Valley of Living Death, but for the first time Gollum's world becomes fathomable, a curse to live with the foxes, cast out from the land of those, who enjoy the privilege to stand and overlook, forever hiding's prey.
They have come into his own, but soon they'll even go beyond.
Eingetragen Am/um
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